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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
6
Campaigns shape Borrovina as Hawthorne backs democracy while a prince and Radulski scheme with two English insiders to stuff ballots. Moving pictures and bribed ballots backfire as Hawthorne edges out the royal candidate and the couple faces an uncertain future.
Mothers urged to treat children for worms with Kickapoo Worm Killer. The ad promises removal of worms, improved appetite, and regulated digestion and growth, pricing 25 cents with orders by mail from Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Philadelphia.
A dialogue notes Mrs Gribbet’s three marriages and denies gambling, with a skeptical remark about her reputation. The exchange hints at social judgments and a rumor mill surrounding her.
The dialogue notes garlic tracing to Asia and its ancient role in diets, mentioning Israelites in Egypt. Egbert questions whether such culinary history relates to the Exodus, while Bacon observes the odor objection.
Dialogue recounts a pedestrian warning a passerby after a brick nearly hit them, a workman offering more bricks, and a judge weighing in on the exchange. The brief scene captures street-level brashness and a curio of daily hardship.
A line from P. L. P. quotes a bold restless man and a startled interlocutor in a tense confrontation. The exchange highlights fear and defiance between two characters as they confront the other’s boldness.
A witty exchange hints at a suffrage strategy where a wife mobilizes fellow suffragettes to wear 30 cent hats while she makes a grand entrance in a 50 dollar confection. The remark frames a theatrical protest plan with playful intrigue.
The term dichotomy borrowed from botany appears in U S medical press to describe a surgeon and specialist fee split. It notes this as an illicit practice where the practitioner who refers a patient shares in the specialist’s fee.
A reflection on ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric and letters who faced poor pay and low social standing from 400 B C to 200 A D. Lucian’s satire illustrates the contempt by imagining a tomb praising princes and governors now sharing poverty with salt fish traders and schoolmasters.
A ship carrying 40 elephants anchored near Zanzi bar East Africa began rolling as the crew played a phonograph tune Every body's Doing It. The elephants swung their trunks in unison to the music causing the vessel to list dangerously until attendants halted the music and calmed the scene.
A man once famed for a vile ruse dies at eighty in Quimper France. He served a notary and helped forge wills by ventriloquism while dying testators lay under their beds. The fraud collapsed and the notary and his clerk were sentenced to 16 and 20 years respectively.
A contractor computes that duplicating the Cheops pyramid in Egypt would cost at least 100 million dollars. With modern machinery and 40 000 workers it could rise in two years, though calculations show the project would need 100 000 men for 30 years. The pyramid spans 127 acres and stands 746 feet high.
Ashington colliery in Northumberland England is claimed as the largest in the world. The company holds royalties over 25 miles, operates seven winding shafts, can output 11 000 to 12 000 tons daily, with current average around 9 000 tons and a fort nightly wages bill between 125 000 and 150 000 dollars.
An advertisement from the Oregon Journal promotes a Western Information Bureau service. It highlights a six month Semi-Weekly Journal subscription for five cents and includes a 144 page illustrated booklet about Oregon resources and opportunities.
A discussion notes that a tree appearing on the Japanese imperial coat of arms shares its name with the daughter of an emperor of Russia. European botanists gave the plant a name honoring the Russian royal, a choice seen as odd given Russia’s earlier wars to dominate the Pacific and wipe Japan from maps.
Mr Brown the new minister shared a dinner with the Smith family and praised the meal. Seven year old Hob Smith quickly added a light reply saying the same sentiment, prompting a brief, humorous exchange.
A berber in China pursues his calling under peculiar conditions using water only and a fearsome iron weapon for shaving. The method, though startling to a barber, apparently serves its purpose effectively as described by The Wide World Magazine.
Miss Harriet Chicese Plowden of Folkestone leaves to the British Museum Beethoven's first violin sonata and Mozart's ten string quartets. The Mozart manuscripts cost her father under 70 dollars at an 1847 auction.
The mouth reveals expression as much as the eyes and merits careful care. Even with natural unattractiveness the mouth can be visibly improved by understanding its defects and remedies.
A London gentlewoman ridicules a man who grows his hair beyond the accepted length, branding him the most idiotic male specimen and accusing him of feigning a poetic soul to attract women.
A prosperous man who visits a Liberty street cafe daily for two years plays solitaire with dice at the bar before lunch to decide if he will order a drink. He always plays alone and never dice with others.
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